A window. The top models come with a sunscreen.

Oh come on, we know for decades that the weather will be more extreme. So on average it will get warmer. For example, that makes showers bigger and more violent, as more energy gets into it and it reaches higher altitude until all water vapour has not only been undercooled, but actually frozen. This makes the cooling effect afterwards so large it can actually cause hypothermia if you are not dressed for it and have nowhere to hide. This is apart from the larger hailstones.

This is actually one of the major problems in Europe. In the past, a heatwave just ended, and sometimes with some thunderclouds. Nowadays, heatwaves end with violent thunderstorms. But those are not the frontal thunderstorms we are used to; these thunderstorms hardly move at all and can flood the same area for hours, sucking all moisture in from the environment and delivering it in one spot.

And yes, the global currents have changed as well, and will change further, which was what you were referring to.

Maybe it is time to pull your head out of the sand after 3 decades. If only because that sand gets terribly hot in summer.

It is. To the head, unfortunately. It is called AI Psychosis and vulnerable people (like CEOs apparently) can suffer from it.

Especially banks want a cashless society. The idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency is already quite old in Europe, but the banks have sabotaged it time and time again, out of fear that they would not be necessary anymore and would be unable to squeeze themselves between every payment.

Cory Doctorow has a few articles and podcasts about stock pricing. Basically, stocks are sold at any price the buyer is willing to pay for it. Stocks from over-hyped companies that may have a great potential for growth are expensive if enough people believe that that potential can eventually pay off. That also means that these companies must continue to produce hypes, else their existing stock value plummets and the company loses its "value". Note that any value here is purely imaginary and extremely volatile.

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Not really. It enabled them to break down tank factories during the second world war, and move them elsewhere to resume production within months. It also enabled any aircraft factory to make any model that was needed.

But it could be that you have forgotten that the US also had standard tanks and could force companies to make that standard model. Those factories were not collective ownership, but the "means of production" were state controlled nonetheless.

It is usually both. Say you have a spy speaker that listens for a magic word and then expects a question from you that it should answer. The listening for the magic word is done on the device itself, as it is a simple task and would need an insane amount of bandwidth and resources to do that in the cloud. The question itself is then processed in the cloud. Turning that answer into audio again may or may not be done on the device itself.

Funny how lots of theories only displace the question. If life came from space, it only displaces the question of how it was formed in the first place. The same is true for religious origin of everything (where did the chaos come from? and where did God come from?) and its scientific counterpart. Replace the chaos with the "soup" of matter and energy and God with the mysterious instability, and it is immediately clear that there is very little difference between the two. Neither answer the question of how it all started, both just displace the question.

There, fixed that for you. Whether the people have a free choice is entirely up to the government imposing fair market laws. Companies usually choose to not have competition. Without government regulation, these companies will become too powerful and start to take over society. There are a lot of versions of capitalism, depending on the rules in which the companies operate.

If the CEO of TotalEnergies had any balls, he would have used the money to build the wind farm (probably a slightly smaller one, so he has some profit) in a country that needs it most (Cuba comes to mind). It would be the best ad and best investment for the company imaginable.

I'd try the Darwin Awards. But be warned. Applying can be dangerous.

And: is there a Pokemon base on that carrier?

No. A loan is lending something out and later getting it back. You lend things out that can be used, not used up. Asking extra money for a money loan is or was seen as inhumane in all major religions. Only Christianity now tries to deny that. The extra money is called usury, and was forbidden (because seen as inhumane). The moneylenders who violated that law therefore came up with the word "that what is in between", or, as money terms are often in Latin, "interest". So interest is the criminals term for usury.

I have been thinking if we can use this for anonymity. I am thinking about "VPN over SPAM", "data connection over ads" or "chat over slop" or something like that, where basically bulk waste traffic is slightly modified to contain a small amount of useful data. The bulk traffic would be sent to a vast number of users, so you would never know who the recipient is by looking at the traffic itself.

As yet, I could not come up with a practical solution, but it would make the waste less wasteful.